4 + 7 = 10
AUSTIN — Sample copies of Texas elementary math textbooks for next fall contain more than 109,000 factual errors. While that sounds like a big number, it’s not necessarily a big problem at this point in the process.
And it’s not as if the publishers fouled up a ton of simple addition or subtraction problems. But there are some. One second-grade math book, for example, has 4 plus 7 equaling 10.
The textbooks are expected to be error-free by the time they hit the classrooms, said Anita Givens, senior director of educational technology at the Texas Education Agency. The State Board of Education, which reviews and approves a range of books and then allows local districts to choose specific texts, fines publishers $5,000 for each goof.
Gotta love it. I know they fix them and typos happen but you just expect that they do a better job of proofreading for textbooks.
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